Iran is currently experiencing the largest protests since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
EU foreign ministers on Monday plan to agree on the introduction of additional sanctions against Iran for the brutal suppression of protests and the supply of hundreds kamikaze drones of Russia, with which it attacks Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reported, transfers AR.
The chancellor stressed that the ongoing protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 after she was detained by Iran's morality police were no longer “just a dress code issue” but had grown into a struggle for freedom and justice.
“We can hardly imagine how much courage it takes. More than 300 killed, dozens of death sentences and more than 14 thousand arrests. Those who demonstrate against oppression in Iran risk their lives, and often the lives of their loved ones, and face the prospect of torture and decades in prison. Hundreds of thousands of people in Germany with Iranian roots fear for their relatives and are appalled by what the mullahs' regime is doing to the demonstrators. It is clear that the Iranian government bears full responsibility for this surge in violence,” Scholz said.
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Currently in power in Iran is an ultra-conservative group of the political class, which is directly connected with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or Pasdaran, which is essentially a state within a state. The KIR can be compared to the troops of Stalin's NKVD, reinforced by aviation, tanks and naval forces. Will these protests become a harbinger of dramatic changes in the country, or will they lead to the fall of the fundamentalist regime? Read about it in Ihor Semivolos' article “Protests in Iran: what is happening and will the regime fall?” >.
